How Mainstream Media Strategies Enable Political Propaganda
Are the strategies of the mainstream media being employed against them to further the spread of political propaganda?
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Review: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
James Comey's recent book 'A Higher Loyalty' was released with much fanfare. But does the book tell us anything new about the Trump administration?
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Facebook Isn’t the Problem. We Are.
The idea that Facebook is responsible for Trump's victory is yet another folk devil whom we can blame in lieu of truthfully assessing important issues.
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Book Review: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff’s explosive book on the Trump administration, while an entertaining read, is dubious in terms of its factual veracity. Michael Wolff’s fly-on-the-wall account of the Trump White House’s first months in office, Fire and Fury, is already one of 2018’s best-selling and most controversial books. While its contents have been questioned and vociferously denied […]
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Battle of Wits: How We Can Ensure Donald Trump Doesn’t Win a Second Term
If impeachment is not an option, how can we leverage the power of ideas to ensure that Donald Trump does not win another four years in office?
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Trump, Corbyn, and the Trouble with Condemning ‘Both Sides’
Donald Trump’s equal condemnation of violence on ‘both sides’ following the protests in Charlottesville highlight the inadequacy of such denunciation. Similar considerations apply to Jeremy Corbyn, who generically condemned ‘violence’ by ‘both sides’ in Venezuela, failing to distinguish between the government and opposition. If there is an asymmetry in wrongdoing, power, or the wrongness of […]
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I Defended the Women’s March Organisers. I Was Wrong
Protesting FGM is sensitive, but women’s rights activism demands the courage to do such things. It seems the Women’s March are either afraid or don’t care.
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Trump to Reinstate US Military Ban on Transgender People
Activists say the president's decision reveals the insincerity of the LGBT positions that he took as a presidential candidate.
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Left vs Liberal: It’s Radicals Who Offer Realistic Solutions
If you want to be realistic about today's political problems, there's only one solution- look to the analysis of the radical left.
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“No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need” by Naomi Klein- a Book Review
In a culture dominated by the pathological dominant-subordinate binary symptomatic of the Trump era, can progressives forge a better future?
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